(19)
(11) EP 0 072 911 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
06.07.1983 Bulletin 1983/27

(43) Date of publication A2:
02.03.1983 Bulletin 1983/09

(21) Application number: 82106259

(22) Date of filing: 13.07.1982
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB IT

(30) Priority: 27.08.1981 US 296683

(71) Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
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(72) Inventors:
  • Clark, William Darwin
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  • Edwards, Earl Garland
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  • Queener, Carl Allan
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(54) Orginal document feed for a copier


(57) A copier original sheet feed path is defined by rails 13 and 14. Single sheets are fed by rollers 47, 48, 49 and 50 together with corresponding rollers in a cover past on exposure zone 16. Rail 14 is designed to support the break of an opened book so that the opened page to be copied passes through the feed path and the other opened page passes along an adjacent path supported by rollers 52, 53 and 54.






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